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Ricardo Vega León is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University. His research explores the intersections of political theory, racial capitalism, and abolitionist movements across transnational contexts, particularly in the Americas and Caribbean.
Education:
- Ph.D., University of Massachusetts Amherst (2024)
Research Focus: His work investigates how historical emancipation projects reinforced racial capitalist structures, analyzed through frameworks like colonial labor dispossession and ideological power dynamics. Key themes include:
- Political economy of slavery/abolition
- Empire and racial hierarchies
- Transnational impacts of liberal economic thought
Publications: Recent articles dissect abolitionism's paradoxes—such as proletarianization of freed Black workers in French colonies—using archival analysis and critical theory to expose systemic continuities between slavery and modern capitalism.
